Provided is a light absorption anisotropic film capable of preparing an image display device having excellent display performance and excellent durability, and a laminate and an image display device formed of the light absorption anisotropic film. The light absorption anisotropic film is used for an image display device, which is formed of a liquid crystal composition containing a liquid crystal compound and a dichroic substance, in which in a signal derived from the dichroic substance detected by time-of-flight secondary ion mass spectrometry, a relationship between a maximum intensity Imax of the light absorption anisotropic film in a thickness direction and an intensity Isur1 in a surface of the light absorption anisotropic film on a viewing side of the image display device satisfies Expression (I-1) 2.0≤Imax/Isur1.

A counter substrate for a liquid crystal device is provided and includes an insulating substrate having a first surface and a second surface facing to the first surface, a first light shielding layer extending in a first direction and a second light shielding layer extending in a second direction crossing the first direction at the first surface side, wherein the first light shielding layer and the second light shielding layer are layered while contacting each other at a crossing part, the first light shielding layer contacts the first surface, and the second light shielding layer contacts the first surface in the part other than the crossing part.

Provided are a liquid crystal display device that can increase light use efficiency and reduce external light reflection, and a method of producing the liquid crystal display device. The liquid crystal display device sequentially includes, from a back surface side toward a viewing surface side: a first substrate; a liquid crystal layer; and a second substrate, the liquid crystal display device including sub-pixels each including an optical opening allowing light to pass through, the first substrate sequentially including, from the back surface side toward the viewing surface side: a supporting substrate; a metal layer surrounding the optical openings; and a resist layer being superimposed with the metal layer and being in contact with the metal layer, an end of the resist layer being superimposed with an end of the metal layer and having a taper angle θ of 40° or more.

The present invention relates to a film capable of enhancing color purity and correcting brightness for a liquid crystal display device, and a liquid crystal display device comprising the same, and can provide a liquid crystal display device having enhanced color gamut and color purity by introducing, to the inside of an adhesive layer or a coating layer of the liquid crystal display device, a combination of an absorption dye for absorbing a specific wavelength band and a fluorescent dye absorbing a specific wavelength band and emitting light, thereby blocking unnecessary wavelengths except for RGB wavelengths.

A magnet erased writing device or eWriter includes cholesteric liquid crystal material, in which a written image is erased using magnetically activated electronic circuitry. By eliminating the mechanical erase button of Prior Art eWriters, the eWriter can be designed with a display footprint that can cover nearly the entire face of the eWriter. An erasing magnet can be used with the device, which can be handheld as, for example, by being part of a stylus. With the erasing magnet separated from the device and the mechanical erase button being omitted, the eWriter avoids unintentional erasures, a drawback of Prior Art eWriters.

A display device according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention includes: a substrate; a gate line that is disposed on the substrate in a first direction; a data line that is disposed in a second direction, while crossing the gate line; a semiconductor layer that is disposed between the gate line and the data line, a transistor formed by the semiconductor, a part of the gate line, and a part of the data line; a pixel electrode connected with the transistor; and a light blocking member that is disposed on the pixel electrode, wherein the light blocking member is disposed in the second direction while overlapping the data line, the light blocking member includes a first region and a second region, each having a different width in the first direction, and a width of the second region is narrower than a width of the first region.

A cover window of a display device includes: a transparent layer; a light blocking layer disposed on the transparent layer, the light blocking layer defining an opening therein, the opening exposing a portion of the transparent layer which corresponds to a sensor of the display device; and an anti-pollution layer disposed corresponding to the portion of the transparent layer which corresponds to the sensor of the display device and is exposed by the opening. The anti-pollution layer has a surface energy lower than each of a surface energy of the transparent layer and a surface energy of the light blocking layer.

According to an aspect, a display device includes: a coated polarization layer configured to absorb light linearly polarized in a second polarization direction perpendicular to a first polarization direction; an optical sheet configured to reflect light linearly polarized in the first polarization direction and transmit light linearly polarized in the second polarization direction; a front panel disposed between the coated polarization layer and the optical sheet and capable of changing a polarization direction of incident light into another polarization direction in accordance with a voltage applied to the front panel; and a display panel overlapping with the front panel with a polarization plate interposed therebetween, the polarization plate transmitting light linearly polarized in the second polarization direction to the optical sheet.

A counter substrate for a liquid crystal device is provided and includes an insulating substrate having a first surface and a second surface facing to the first surface, a first light shielding layer extending in a first direction and a second light shielding layer extending in a second direction crossing the first direction at the first surface side, wherein the first light shielding layer and the second light shielding layer are layered while contacting each other at a crossing part, the first light shielding layer contacts the first surface, and the second light shielding layer contacts the first surface in the part other than the crossing part.

An optical device includes a first outer substrate; a second outer substrate disposed opposite to the first outer substrate; and an active liquid crystal film or a polarizer, wherein the active liquid crystal film or the polarizer is encapsulated by an encapsulating agent between the first and second outer substrates and wherein a shrinkable film adjacent to any one of the first and second outer substrates is further included. The optical device is capable of varying transmittance. The optical device can be used for various applications such as an eyewear, for example, sunglasses or AR (augmented reality) or VR (virtual reality) eyewears, an outer wall of a building or a sunroof for a vehicle.